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have dealt with elsewhere in this But colour is only one of the book. As a sixth alternative, beauties of his magical descrip- there is the comparatively high tions. It is allied harmoniously country of Mayumbe, in the with sound and movement, so that always we feel the vitality that in- Boma district on the West Coast, and tapped by a light railway forms his scenes. It is indeed im- possible to think of any of his The African Eldorado tra- from the old capital of Boma. qualitics without immediately per-

his versed

Later, he deals more exhaus-ceiving others, for

poems have so thoroughly by 'Mr. Alexander Barns (15/- Meth-tively with these districts, and the genuine unity. He is descrip- one can regard his alternative tive, narrative, meditative, all at uen) is the Congo, and this no

once, and his words are selected in- doubt provides the reason why views with confidence.

His book contains interesting and his rhythms vary in answer

stinctively for exact expression, Sir Louis Franck, former Bel- gian Colonial Minister, provides chapters dealing with the an

the play of feeling, He has the the book with an introduction.thropology of the Congo, with rare accomplishment of being able to write excellent blank verse. Those who contemplate visiting fish and fisheries, elephants and

no music in his Anest the Congo will find that this book ivory, the great apes of Africa, There is

poems which is not a part of the combines an absorbing interest and with cannibals. with much useful information. He considers that cannibalism menning, Work of this nature will The author has already demon- had its African birth in the great not readily be forgotten.

His imagery is often wonderfully strated his close acquaintance forests of the West Coast and beautiful, but its chief merit is with the Congo and its peoples the Central Congo, and he says its fitness, its illuminating power. by "The Wonderland of Eastern that though cannibal customs It is not simply ornament, but the Congo "and" Across the Grent die hard in the Congo basin, the natural blossoming of ideas. The Crater Land to the Congo." "An drastic measures taken by the phenomena of nature suggest, per- African Eldorado," worthily Government to suppress them haps, a phase of emotion or a move- ranks with them, and, because of are causing them to die out. But ment of the human mind, and this its careful descriptive pages, is even in these days the Leopard Avain expresses itself in physical analogies, and so the image flonts of greater value to the prospec-Sect, Society of Human

In the light like a bubble with tive resident. Should the Bel- Leopards, known in the Stanley subtly changing tints; gium authorities adopt a more ville district as the Anyoto, still hospitable policy, the coming dig up recently buried corpses settler will require little informa- from their graves at the insti- tion other than is provided by gation of witch doctors. Mr. Barns's very informative volume. I know that we in this country ought not to 'throw stones in the direction of the Congo when dealing with the policy of hospitality. If ever a country needed the slogan of "The Open Door," it is South Africa. But because we sin in a reactionary fashion, there is no reason why the rich territory in the North should be equally foolish.

or

Mr. Barns concludes his book with a chapter on the Congo for the Tourist and Sportsman, but the territory described and pic- tured by him is in no danger of visitation from the Society of Human Leopards.

The book is generously illus- trated and contains three valu- able folding maps and one relief map of the Congo basin.

OF NO SCHOOL.

THE POET, H. M. GREEN.

in

the

Basil Garstang writes "Sydney Morning Herald":-

For more than 20 years Henry Mackenzie Green has been known to

observaat renders as a poet- under his real name and as Harry Sullivan--and yet when he publish ed his first book two years ago it contained less than 40 poems.

All quivering was the hot bright

air

Like the troubled crystal of a

stream:

It was as though some thought

had stirred

A sleeper, and had faintly blurred The surface of his golden

dream.

The enchantment of the isle of

vision is characterised in the simile

with which its first appearance is greeted:

It slipped up from the shadowy

деп,

And lay like some elusive smile Upon the lips of mystery, And just this same mingling of human meaning and inhuman strangeness may be noted in that Arch of Dreams

Whereon all feet make music. *for

its span

Is builded of a murmuring rain-

bow, hewn

Out of the many-coloured heart |

of man.

In "An African Elodrado" Mr. Barns deals specifically with the agricultural potentialities of the Congo, with its mines and minerals, its provision for educa- tion, and its methods of transport by railroad and river. He is in a position to write with authority because his acquaintance with África dates from 1898, when he

but verbal photography cannot Description that is nothing else began his Colonial career as an

claim to be poetry, but Green's nes assistant manager on. a large

This criptions are not only exact and coffee and rubber plantation in is no evidence of poetic poverty, vivid, but are seen by the imagina- Nyasaland. Since then he has but of self-criticism, concentration and are informed by a humon turned his hand to most things. tion, and determination to present mood. There is feeling, as well as He understands tropical planta- only what is worthy of his remark light and shadow, in the line- tion methods and production; able talent. Its verses are not to Raide. how to handle natives; how to be read once and thrown

They are like opals which one may apen virgin forest land; all about examine again and again with plen- suitable soil, manures, fertilisers, sure-in-their-varying-colours their and the making of plant pearly greys or sombre darkness nurseries, as well as the build-shot with tender green and rich ing of habitations. He has used blue and flashes of inner fire. And a forge and has been able to give colour is truly one of the charms a good account of himself at any-Sea Maid,"

of Green's poetry, from the early whose ivory body thing from plumbing to pruning. gleams in lovely contrast through This all-round knowledge has the green gloom of the Italian sea been particularly useful in his to the late "Isle of Vision," with survey of the general prosperity its of the Congo. He advises those who contemplate operations to consider as markets, labour and transport are the three vital questions one of the six follow-

Light blue height and dark blue

deep, White reach of sea-resounding

shore,. Wide-waving

steep, Foam-white seabirds soared and

passed,

woodland, lilac

And scarlet fishes silently Shoaled out in the unfathom'd

vast.

ing districts in which to operate. | beside which the

They are, in order of merit and importance first, Katanga and the the district tapped by Katanga Railway between Sakania and Bukama, with the unlimited local markets of the Great Copper Belt at one's front door, so to speak. Then I should put next the Kasai Basin and the districts of Lomami and Lulun, through which the Katanga Railway is now being extended, with eventual markets

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I know her when the pale and

pointed moon

Swings slant in the extremity of

heaven.

A hollow blade of brass, soon to]

descend

On yon grim giant of storm-

beaten stone.

THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1927.

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Much new blood has lately ap- Then feeling and thought are peared in the various series of all runs a longing for an evasive states a London writer. And not fused in this poetry. Through it cheap reprints of the classics, satisfaction, an unrest of the spirit before it was wanted. Publishers that drives him forth,

in the past have been too apt to Like some small star-fake lost Atick to a few score of hackneyed titles Elia's Essays, Marcus in the black aky, Or thistledown that in the wind Aurelius's "Thoughts," St. Augus- tine's "Confessions," and other blows by,

estimable works. It is encourag- ing, therefore, to find them getting away from the beaten track. expiry of the copyright of several of Stevenson's early works has helped them considerably. Steven- aon was not a great writer, or a great thinker, but the term "classic" has in its time harboured many worse than him.

On, on for ever

He may now and then find mo mentary repose in nature mystic- Ism. So, in his "Enchanted Or

chard,"

far off,

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wonder,

Share its existence.

And so, too, the adventurer on the Isle of Vision tells us—

The live earth lifted voice in me, And sang and sang, for we were

one;

But generally his intellect doubts

in both the Katanga Highlands as is the feminine constitution. and the Lower Congo. After Tonicity is the clue to woman's that I should recommend the health and well-being. The blood or rejects the solution of his intal- Western littoral of Tanganyika, and the nerves being in normal tions. The peace which tures him vision tapped by both the Lualaba- condition, good health" logically baffles and oludes. The

весть to be sometimes, a merc Tanganyika Railway on the West, follows. and the Dar-es-Salaam-Kigoma people offer a long-tried and Sometimes the breath of inspiration Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale vapour from hot youthful blood. Railway on the East, with small thoroughly proven remedy for the blows the mists about the heart local markets on both sides of more common ills that feminine into fantastic shapes, intangible the lake and also within reach, flesh is heir to. mechanically, of both the found to be virtually specific in Green is of no school. His anne Katanga

and Lower Congo minimizing the discomforts and artistry, is at the opposite pole from markets. As a fourth, the high-aftermath of Nature's inexorable violent defiance of art for the proof

that passing fashion mistakes land districts of the Kilo Gold- exactions. A wise and ex-

of original genius. He is in the old tradition that we inherit through Kents and Rossetti.

They have been and unenduring.

fields are attractive. They are perienced physician lived to hear at present reached by way of the his prescription blessed by many Nile and Uganda Railway. There grateful women. This prescrip-

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